19 OCTOBER 1985, page 33
An Immense Bore
Noel Malcolm LEAVES FROM A VICTORIAN DIARY by Edward Leeves, edited by John Sparrow Alison Press/Secker & Warburg, £8.95 T his is a peculiarly pointless book. That, I suppose,......
A Sense
of inward fire Peter Levi EXTENDING THE TERRITORY by Elizabeth Jennings Carcanet, £4.95 T he taste for mature poetry is an acquired one, most easily acquired when one has......